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by Tor3 4y ago
Diagrams are valuable and useful. But some of us simply can't create them using "graphical" tools. I literally can't even make a drawing for something as simple as a dog house with any on-screen tool (mouse, select, poin
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by Tor3 4y ago
Sometimes when I'm running the extractor I may at the same time have the door to the living room open and the kitchen window open and running the living room wood stove at maximum - if I do, it sucks so much air from the room that
873.
by Tor3 4y ago
That's.. incredible. Why is it used at all then? It sounds like worse than not using it. If I'm not venting outside when I'm frying something then the smoke alarm goes off too.
874.
by Tor3 4y ago
I've never seen one venting into the room. There's always been a vent to outside. Otherwise it would be pointless to have one - like using an air conditioner venting the hot air inside the room.
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by Tor3 4y ago
Evolution is never a gradual process toward something. It only looks like that when looking back after the fact. If you take a random walk, and, because the valleys, lakes, mountains, boulders blocking certain paths, somehow led you to en
876.
by Tor3 4y ago
Did you read the article? It explained about that. A lot. The name of that particular computer had "PC" in it, and not because of IBM (NEC used that in 1979 already, for example).
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by Tor3 4y ago
Well.. it's not entirely without reason that Japanese retailers promote Japanese brands. I bought a NEC laptop in Japan some years ago, and I haven't been able to find an equivalent one anywhere else since then. Screen: 13.3"
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by Tor3 4y ago
It's surprising that it would still need government subsidies to start with. I'm not really into the details of such thing that much, but around here (northern Europe) we're basically getting fiber everywhere, first in cities
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by Tor3 4y ago
For devs it's only inconvenient and annoying, but for the devs' company the inefficiency means money. At our company we were almost all of us working remotely during the pandemic (and many still do), and anything which slowed do
880.
by Tor3 4y ago
You were not the only one..
881.
by Tor3 4y ago
> What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!? [..] I'm a man and I actually track the moon cycles. I go skiing in the mountains during winter. If it's a full moon, or nearly so, I can plan on starting in the e
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by Tor3 4y ago
> In the EU I can do instant payments from phone... ^ This. I'm not sure if this is actually EU wide yet.. but there are several payment systems available, which aren't AFAIK yet usable across countries or at least not many cou
883.
by Tor3 4y ago
Yes, I came across that recently. It may even have been mentioned on HN before - that the original smallpox vaccine is apparently lost.
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by Tor3 4y ago
It doesn't mean any difference when you're trying to slow down downhill. As you're saying, "your tyres are going to make ALL the difference." Which is exactly what I said - 4x4 or AWD doesn't help anything with
885.
by Tor3 4y ago
The part of the article which explains how the smallpox vaccine was distributed around the world before cold storage and airplanes is just incredible. 1) Recruit 22 orphaned boys 2) Inject two of them with the cowpox virus (which is
886.
by Tor3 4y ago
> I'd heard the folklore that snow tires are more important than all wheel drive for handling on both snow and ice All wheel drive helps zero with winter conditions, except for going uphill or some other acceleration-equivalent acti
887.
by Tor3 4y ago
I just checked the price for one of the digital G-Shocks.. I could buy a car for that! A used car, at least. So no, I'll stick with the cheap digital Casio I already have, even if it's a couple of minutes wrong today (it's a
888.
by Tor3 4y ago
Heh no :-) - because the railway stations here don't have station clocks with second hands, unlike Switzerland.. heck I don't know why they bother with the minute hand.
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by Tor3 4y ago
At around 1976-1977 I bought one of those fancy new LED wristwatches, where you pressed a button and the time lit up in red. Straight out of James Bond, as I recall. As I was studying electronics at the time I brought the watch to the lab a
890.
by Tor3 4y ago
Well.. Tor can create trouble for you as well, or at least it did for me. I used to sometimes go through Tor to visit competitors' websites when I used my work computer, just because I didn't want to leave a trail of my company&#x
891.
by Tor3 4y ago
It was a long time ago by now, so he passed some years ago. All of us from the old company came to his funeral, he wasn't easily forgotten.
892.
by Tor3 4y ago
If you focus on Britain only then this was effectively turned around with the Cardwell reform of 1871: https://victorianweb.org/history/armyrefs.html (and you can find examples going back to the 17th century where &quo
893.
by Tor3 4y ago
Well, yes. But it depends. I worked for a company which had to go through a re-organization, and in that period we got a new CEO who didn't know anything about the tech, unlike everybody else. But he was great at turning companies arou
894.
by Tor3 4y ago
To my surprise my local library doesn't accept book donations. They have to get them through their own buying program. Which is unfortunate, my wife wanted to donate Japanese books because they have so few of them, she even bought extr
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by Tor3 4y ago
As someone who owns a house (after a long time of having much less space), I can state that you'll never get enough space.. not if you wish to stay married, at least. I just don't have the space for all my books, in this relativel
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by Tor3 4y ago
Here as well. Because of a customer using AIX, though it'll be phased out (as planned - they went with IBM/AIX because IBM could give them up to 20 years of guaranteed support and maintenance). In the not-so-far past there were al
897.
by Tor3 4y ago
> Curious, how often do you find yourself printing these days? Main use is that I write music scores which I print (reading them off a tablet won't do). This would be several times a week. Weekly or so (sometimes more, sometimes les
898.
by Tor3 4y ago
There is a very recent analysis of Hancock's "Ancient Apocalypse" series. Well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=341Lv8JLLV4 by Stefan Milo. Case in point: Hancock presents _zero_ evidence.
899.
by Tor3 4y ago
Try to imagine a bunch of poachers holding an elephant still while sawing off the tusks.. won't happen. It's not like they would grow new tusks next year anyway. As for killing off the part of the population carrying the "tus
900.
by Tor3 4y ago
Agreed. It's tragic that she passed away. The content of her 92 videos describe Japanese grammar better than any textbook in existence (ignoring her own small booklet - and unfortunately she passed before she could finish her newer boo

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